Radio: History on the Air

Thanks largely to radio, no public figure had ever seemed quite so close
to so many citizens as Franklin Roosevelt. Reporting the death of the
President who made his own radio history, radio, too, made history of a
sort. For four days it was not itself, and for one full minute it was
silent.

Most people had come to know Franklin Roosevelt's voice like an
intimate's. Radio probably had more attentive listeners on the day of
his death than it ever had before. Most of the nation first heard the
news over the air....